Blowing the whistle on torture in Afghan jails
| November 30, 2009- Artist: Grace Pastine
- Title: Blowing the whistle on torture in Afghan jails
- Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio
- Genre: Interview
- Year: 2009
- Length: 18:31 minutes (16.95 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
Grace Pastine of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says her organization has long maintained the government should have known about the abuse of detainees. Now we have evidence that they did know.
Pastine discusses the court case brought by the BCCLA and Amnesty International, their complaint to the Military Police Complaints Commission and the significance of Richard Colvin's testimony to their ongoing attempts to hold the government accountable for its actions.
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